Diploma Thesis Aiste Ambrazeviciute - Imaginary Folklore

Geographical position and abundance of forests have determined the spread of wood as the main building material of Lithuania in 20th century. Therefore, Lithuania holds a rich collection of woodenware and reminiscences of wooden architecture with the outstanding ornamentation. Due to industrialization and standardized building products, material’s innate characteristics and inherent heterogeneity remain largely neglected and unexplored.

Assembly lines caused a world made of parts, framing the imagination to think about the objects as combination of discrete parts with distinct functions. But there are no homogenous material assemblies in nature.

We enter an age of digital fabrication, with compound wood materials allowing for reliable properties and milling technology enabling complete manipulation of solid wood. The project’s design is based on the complex wood anatomy and material investigation, combining various scales and parts of wood, which enabled to discover new unseen forms out of wood.

The goal of the project is to rediscover the wood

en architecture and to introduce design parameters proposing etnographic environment that speaks truly of its birthplace and the future.